The screen's loss was politics' gain when dominant actress Glenda Jackson successfully stood as Labour MP for Hampstead in 1992, and has not filmed since, giving herself whole-heartedly to her ...

1668. A Cockney stage actress (a former orange seller) and a French born Duchess are mistresses and rivals for the affections of King Charles II and for the hearts of the British people.

Despite being unfit for active military service, Alfred Hitchcock was very keen to contribute to the war effort, especially after a snide comment by his former producer Michael Balcon about "plump" ...

Though he had been, in his own words (2000), "a moderately successful actor for 25 years", it was being part of that ensemble in The Full Monty (UK/US, d. Peter Cattaneo, 1997), that made Tom ...

The stories of various British and American pilots stationed at an RAF airbase in the Midlands during the Second World War.

Cast: Ian Carmichael (Henry Palfrey); Terry-Thomas (Raymond Delauney); Alastair Sim (Stephen Potter); Janette Scott (April Smith); Dennis Price (Dunstan Dorchester) ...

There is a belief among many fans of Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC, 1969-74) that the cult comedy series escaped fully formed from the minds of its writers untainted by convention or precedent. In ...

'The Great British Newsreel' captured the early 20th Century on film ...